The Times Square and Herald Square plazas — dubbed the Greenlight for Midtown Project — were the first areas to go carless, (a move that was fought against by drivers across the city). While Mayor Bloomberg first proposed the project as a temporary experiment, after the plazas proved to lower the injury rate to pedestrians by vehicles in the area, he decided to make them official. With the success of the Greenlight for Midtown Project the city government decided to expand the plazas into all parts of the city.

“This Program is a key part of the City’s effort to ensure that all New Yorkers live within a 10-minute walk of quality open space,” the city notes on their website. Proposals can be of all shapes and sizes but must be submitted by a non-profit organization. In the last round of proposals 22 plaza ideas were submitted and 9 were selected to be transformed by 2011 into bonafied pedestrian right-of-ways. If you’d like part of your neighborhood to be considered make sure to submit your proposal by Wednesday, June 30, 2010. This upcoming round of proposals will be completed by 2013. New York City’s really racking up the cool green spaces these days, and we like it.

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ina75April 6, 2010 at 6:25 pm

I’d like to see a pedestrian green space where the Atlantic Yards are and the awful stadium project is being built, and so would virtually everyone in the adjacent neighborhoods. What do you say, Mayor Bloomberg, pretty please?